Re: [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: (coretemp) Detect the thermal sensors byCPUID

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Fri May 07 2010 - 08:44:07 EST


Hi Huawu,

On Fri, 7 May 2010 17:54:59 +0800, Huaxu Wan wrote:
>
> The thermal sensors of Intel(R) CPUs can be detected by CPUID instruction,
> indicated by CPUID.06H.EAX[0].

I can see that you are sending these two patches for quite some time
and I understand you'd like them to get finally reviewed and merged.
Unfortunately I simply don't have the time for this. So please don't
wait for my ack, just send your patches to Andrew Morton and hopefully
he will take care.

>
> Signed-off-by: Huaxu Wan <huaxu.wan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c | 24 +++++++-----------------
> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
> index e9b7fbc..237c68d 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
> @@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ static int __init coretemp_init(void)
> {
> int i, err = -ENODEV;
> struct pdev_entry *p, *n;
> + u32 eax;
>
> /* quick check if we run Intel */
> if (cpu_data(0).x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
> @@ -450,23 +451,12 @@ static int __init coretemp_init(void)
> goto exit;
>
> for_each_online_cpu(i) {
> - struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(i);
> -
> - /* check if family 6, models 0xe (Pentium M DC),
> - 0xf (Core 2 DC 65nm), 0x16 (Core 2 SC 65nm),
> - 0x17 (Penryn 45nm), 0x1a (Nehalem), 0x1c (Atom),
> - 0x1e (Lynnfield) */
> - if ((c->cpuid_level < 0) || (c->x86 != 0x6) ||
> - !((c->x86_model == 0xe) || (c->x86_model == 0xf) ||
> - (c->x86_model == 0x16) || (c->x86_model == 0x17) ||
> - (c->x86_model == 0x1a) || (c->x86_model == 0x1c) ||
> - (c->x86_model == 0x1e))) {
> -
> - /* supported CPU not found, but report the unknown
> - family 6 CPU */
> - if ((c->x86 == 0x6) && (c->x86_model > 0xf))
> - printk(KERN_WARNING DRVNAME ": Unknown CPU "
> - "model 0x%x\n", c->x86_model);
> + /* check if the CPU has thermal sensor */
> + eax = cpuid_eax(0x06);
> + if (!(eax & 0x01)) {
> + struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(i);
> + printk_once(KERN_WARNING DRVNAME ": CPU (model=0x%x)"
> + " has no thermal sensor!\n", c->x86_model);
> continue;
> }
>
> --
> 1.6.3.3.363.g725cf7


--
Jean Delvare
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